Openings – TNS India Foundation (TNSIF)

TNS India Foundation (TNSIF) is a non-profit development organization with over 10 years of experience in implementing robust, effective and, demand-driven programs working towards national economic reconstruction, with a special focus on women. By connecting capable individuals to transformative opportunities, we have been able to create an enduring impact for them, their families, and communities.

More information can be found at www.tnsindiafoundation.org.

Through our program design we work to identify, skill and empower underprivileged youth (age 18- 25, college dropout/college going/recent graduates) through a combination of skills training, career counselling, multi stakeholder engagements and placements. The program embeds itself in the ecosystem and community of the youth which include existing education providers, parents and peers and works to create systemic level change and youth empowerment. The program has worked with over 7000 students in Mumbai in the last four years and is at an exciting stage in its growth. We are actively looking to build on the transformative change we have catalysed on the ground and expanding this to empower more young people across Mumbai and now in Bangalore too. The program’s success hinges on – young people passionate about other young people, thinking and executing ground-level initiatives that have a measurable impact on youth employability issues, a data driven yet empathetic approach to managing the dynamic ecosystem and lastly a zeal to take good ideas to scale.

The Youth Employability Program is expanding to encompass sector-specific training in response to overwhelming industry demand for skilling youth in new age entry-level jobs in domains covering (A) Advanced Software Development (coding/programming) and (B) Data Science & Analytics. The sector specific training will be part of our Campus to Technical Careers (C2TC) program. The program will work with underprivileged youth from IT/Science and Computer Programming backgrounds to help them get employed in either traditional software development (enterprise and/or mobile) or data science.

This program is for you, if you are enthusiastic, talented and looking to commit your energy towards changing the course of youth employability issues in India.

1. Program Specialist (Technical Training)

Reporting Supervisor: Senior Project Manager

Location : Nashik / Ahmedabad / Hyderabad / Chennai

Responsibilities:

Program Specialists in Technical Training and Curriculum development will:

• Design and update the technical curriculum according to employer requirements for the C2TC program.
• Work with underprivileged youth full time through providing extensive and high quality, focused technical training.
• Mobilize colleges for outreach to maximum youth to offer the employability skills program
• Maintain program operations in the college premises and at the digital academy which are part of the program
• Maintain, update and share databases for the training batches
• Collaborate effectively and efficiently with the team to achieve organizational goals
• Provide innovations and improvisations to build a strong and industry based curriculum for our students.
• We encourage a cooperative work culture and welcome anyone willing to go the extra-mile for their work!

Essential skills include –

• Masters’ degree in IT/Computer Science or B.Tech/BE or MCA in IT background or similar backgrounds with keen interest in teaching / training
• 2-6 years of work experience in either (a) Training/L&D roles with the private-sector/ student engagement (including internships and volunteer work), or (b) experience in core technical/programming/development work at technology (IT/software/tech start-ups) and/or analytics firms looking to switch to a training role

Certified in advanced programming or data sciences, with demonstrable expertise in at least two or more of the following groups of technologies:

• C++, Java, SDLC (both traditional/waterfall model, and agile), SQL
• JavaScript, AngularJS, NodeJS
• Java Full Stack (JPA with Hibernate, Spring and SpringBoot)
• Willingness to live in and travel across city for offline sessions at partnered colleges and online sessions
• Ability to deliver within tight deadlines
• Ability to contribute and engage with multiple stakeholders
• An openness to learning and feedback
• Keen to work in challenging situations
• Demonstrated ability to work in a diverse team
•  Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred skills include

• Conversational familiarity with local language would be preferred, but not a strict requirement
• High-performers and individuals with an enterprising streak

Interested candidates please share CVs on this mail Id careers@tnsif.org 

2. Program Specialist – Corporate Linkage

Role: Career Linkages

Location: Pan India

The Campus to Corporate Careers (C2C) is a youth employability program that was launched in 2015. The program trains underserved final year undergraduate youth from accounting and finance backgrounds in soft skills and then places them in formal sector jobs. Sustained income from a formal sector job helps move the students and their families out of poverty.

The Job –

• Understanding students’ career needs through direct and indirect interactions
• Finding opportunities that match those needs on social media platforms and through personal connects
• Connecting with corporates in the BFSI, IT/ITeS, Manufacturing and other sectors as applicable and managing relationships with them
• Preparing students to apply for selected job opportunities
• Arranging for placement events including logistics and other arrangements to facilitate interviews and selection of candidates
• Collating data for interviews and selections and updating relevant dashboards
• Provide post – placement support to students w.r.t. joining and retention as per need

Details

Program Specialist in the Career Linkage Team will work with corporates on one side and with students on the other. They will work within the challenging marketecosystem of Mumbai to understand the job market requirements and match these with the skills of the students.

The role of the will involve Mobilization and Outreach – reaching out to disadvantaged studentgroups who are already being trained through TNSIF in tier 3 and tier 4 colleges. They will provide pre- placement support, by creating awareness about the importance of working in formal sector jobs and about the market. They will also talk about the particular job opportunities that may be available with them.

On the corporate side, they will be accountable for building and managing relationships with potential recruiters and managing their expectations. They have to liaise with corporates to understand their hiring requirements and ensuring that they provide placement opportunities for our trained students.

To connect these potential recruiters with our trained students, the will organize career fests in the program’s partner colleges. All logistical and other arrangements will need to be made for the same.

It is the responsibility of the career linkage team to ensure that a minimum of 70% of all trainedstudents are placed through career fests, individual drives and self-placements.

In addition, the have to provide post-placement support to the students and collect data for program joining and retention rates. Students will need to be motivated on a continued basis to ensure job retention.

The should be willing to innovate and improvise on the program to build a truly exciting youth employability program. It is the goal of the resource to drive a positive behaviour change towards formal sector employment and ensure all participants embark on their first job. The role calls for highly motivated development sector professionals, looking to make real impact with the youth they work with.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Preferred work experience in student engagement (including internships and volunteer work)
• Preferred work experience in sourcing job opportunities in the BFSI and other sectors
• Demonstrated excellence in college, internships and extra-curricular work
• Top tier graduate and/or postgraduate degree (preferred)
• Ability to work in a diverse team and under pressure
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience in event management (preferred)

Interested candidates please share CVs on this mail Id careers@tnsif.org

3. Sr. Learning Associate

Role: Learning and development/ eLearning Content Developer

Location: Bangalore

The Job
1. Updating existing curriculum to match current needs of the program.
2. Monitoring student engagement with content on the LMS.
3. Creating lesson plans for online and in-person training programs.
4. Following up with trainers to check the efficacy of courseware used in the training program.
5. Creating assessments and activities to check the application of concepts taught through learning materials.
6. Creating Storyboards for different learning formats as required.
7. Maintain curriculum related documents and keep an inventory of version control.
8. Providing other support as the role may require.

Details
The senior learning associate will work exclusively with the learning manager/lead to address the needs of various programs run by TNS across various locations. The role requires engaging with trainers and students to ensure that all learning material and assessments are up to date and relevant to the learning needs of students and requirements listed by the program owners.

Preferred Skills & Experience

1. 5+ years of experience in the areas of instructional design, learning delivery and learning technology.

2. Experience in Adult learning and Curriculum and Development in Edtech or training.

3. Experience in using rapid development tools, authoring tools, and LMS/ LCMS to create and publish engaging and interactive content.

4. Experience in instructional designing and video storyboarding is must.

5. Knowledge of designing game and simulation-based learning solutions.

6. Experience in developing bite-sized learning and designing for mobile learning.

7. Visualize media to support learning (visual aids for ILT, multimedia for WBT).

8. Creating assessments, learning materials, activities that are engaging.

9. Adapt instructional materials created for one delivery model to another (usually this is adapting materials from ILT to WBT).

10. Experience in ESL training is a plus.

Desirable Attributes

1. Ability to work effectively in an agile, continuously evolving, and sometimes ambiguous environment.

2. Ability to adopt new tools and technology to aid efficient content creation.

3. Experience in working with global teams, cultures and industries.

4. Expert technical knowledge in Microsoft Office and Google suite.

5. Hands-on experience with Learning Management Software (LMS)

6. Familiarity with video editing software.

7. Effective communication in visual, oral and written form.

8. Cross-cultural competence.

9. This is work from the office with occasional work from home privileges depending on the work requirement.

Interested candidates please share CVs on this mail Id careers@tnsif.org

4. Senior/ Program Specialist – Training & Counselling

Role: Soft Skills Trainer

Location : Pan India

The Job

• Establishing partnerships with Tier 3 & Tier 4 colleges for the youth employability program
• Mobilizing students from these colleges and gauging their interest
• Training students on Soft Skills Curriculum (provided for by program) in offline & online modes
• Following up with students for course completion, assignments etc. as the need may arise
• Mobilizing and preparing students to apply for placement opportunities
• Providing one to one counselling to students to work in the formal sector
• Maintaining student and program data in relevant trackers and dashboards
• Collating case studies and other program collateral
• Providing other support as the role may require

Details
Program Specialists in Training and Counselling will typically work with students on a full-time basis, providing extensive and high quality training and counselling. They will work within the challengingcollege ecosystems and engage actively with key stakeholders of the program including students, parents and college administrators.

The role of the Program Specialist involves Mobilization and Outreach – reaching to disadvantagedstudent groups in tier 3 and tier 4 colleges, enrolled in their final year of graduation. Majority of the students are first generation learners, thus, creating awareness about the importance of working in formalsector jobs is an important aspect of the job role. The Program Specialists then conduct Screening of the students through interviews, gauging their interest and fit in the program. the selected students are then enrolled in Training on soft skills, including employability skills, interview preparation, group discussions, CV writing, bringing awareness about the job market, career growth and work readiness. Thetrainers also engage parents and support their students through counselling, ensuring they have a smooth transition from Campus to Corporate. They will additionally be accountable for managing relationships with college partners by providing them with regular updates and effectively engaging with them in all prograactivities.

The Program Specialist should be willing to innovate and improvise on the program to build a trulyexciting youth employability experience for the students. It is the goal of the Specialist to drive a on theirfirst job. The role calls for highly motivated development sector professionals, looking to make real impactwith the youth they work with.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Fresher MSW or upto 2 years’ experience for Program Specialist role.
• Preferred work experience in student engagement (including internships and volunteer work)
• Demonstrated excellence in college, student engagement, internships and extra-curricular work
• Top tier graduate and/or postgraduate degree (preferred)
• Ability to work in a diverse team and under pressure
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Interested candidates please share CVs on this mail Id careers@tnsif.org 

 5. Program Management Associate ( PMA )

Location: Mumbai

The key responsibilities for the PMA:

• Evaluating programs by coordinating with Project Lead, ensuring regular collection of research and analysis of the information.
• Build high-quality program proposals / reports for donors, key stakeholders like Third Party Agencies and Program teams
• Coordinate with Monitoring and Evaluation team for development and management of
• Supporting Program Lead/managers for business and program development through content development, outreach and donor pitch decks.
• Responsible for submission of Monthly Progress Reports (MPRs), Annual Reports (ARs) and
• Support other cross-functional teams in the achievement of program deliverables, and multi-task on internal deliverables to support senior management.
• Help promote the Program and TNSIF’s work with immediate and related stakeholders through creation and dissemination of a variety of communication collateral and knowledge presentations.
• Along with the TNSIF team bring learnings from past TNSIF successes and proven best practices to the program implementation.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• This role calls for an intrinsically motivated and passionate individual, looking to work in a cross  functional role for program research, proposal writing, design and development.
• Graduate or postgraduate in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering orsimilar
• 2+ years of experience in a corporate or development sector with a keenness to workon poverty related  .
• Excellent analytical skills & large data management in Excel is a Must, with good written & oral communication skills and an ability to build a convincing argument.
• Ability to understand and work with diverse teams, business models, high quality pitch decks etc.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse team, spread across diverse geographies and to deliver in a time bound program.

Applications to be sent via email to careers@tnsif.org with Subject line “Program Management Associate

Profiles can be shared on skandalgaonkar@tnsif.org / bpathare@tnsif.org